Over the weekend, George Bush vetoed a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other forms of torture.
In this video (via boingboing), former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan, who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “Taxi To The Dark Side”, says that, while torture is practically worthless as an intelligence-gathering tool compared to standard interrogation, it has been most effective in persuading people in Muslim countries that jihad against the U.S. is morally acceptable.
So do photos like this recently-released picture from Abu Ghreib (WARNING: graphic violent image).
We have become the very thing we say we wish to destroy.
